40 - Eishöhle

Thu 05 Aug 1999
Becka Lawson



Through the scrot to the traverses. Andy rerigged the climb before that and about 8 more bolts went into the traverse (we discovered we'd brought 3 bolting kits so thought we'd better damn well use them). Surveyed from beyond traverses to pitchhead. Rigged pitch + traverse before it (to avoid the drips), down ~15m to another pitch. Paul + I decided we were superfluous to requirements + bummed off out, only an hour out from the pitch head + got to do most of the walk in the light, a _good_ thing. The other three rigged down 'eiscream' as far as a tightish squeeze with the pitch series carrying on beyond. They'd run out of hangers by then so surveyed + derigged out + had a hard walk back with all the rope. Wookey, Andy + Julian 13½ hours

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Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/40/cucc/pov/eiscream
    caves-1623/78/standard
    caves-1623/136/chile/carpetworld
    caves-1623/204/midlevel/rainbow
    caves-1623/204/midlevel/phreatic
    caves-1623/204/deepsouth/ariston1
Wallets on this date:
    1999#03 ['notes6', '1999#40eiscream', 'notes2', 'notes1', 'LISTING', 'notes4', 'notes7'…
    1999#11 ['notes2', 'notes1', 'LISTING', '1999#204ariston1', 'notes3']
    1999#17 rainbow ['rainbow_elev', 'rainbowplan_2', 'LISTING', '1999#204rainbow', 'rainbow_plan']
    1999#18 white elephant ['1999#204whiteelephant', 'notes2', 'notes1', 'LISTING', 'notes4', 'notes3']
Logbook trips on this date:
    40 - Eishöhle
    204 - Steinbrückenhöhle
    40 - Eishöhle addendum
    136 - 136
    204 - Unclear if trip occurred